Bad news, everyone! A meteor with devastating levels of radiation has collided with the Earth! Fortunately, most everyone you know has access to a room in special, radiation-proof apartment buildings the government has hastily...
Friends in the LGBT equality movement, let’s take a minute to right-size our perspective, shall we? We have made tremendous strides in the past few years. It’s gotten to the point that three states...
He did not move. Eyes shut, he waited, shivering. He heard Travis breathe loud in the room; he heard Travis shift his rifle, click the safety catch, and raise the weapon. There was a...
A few weeks ago, I lost my mind about Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky.” I lost it to the point that I got suckered for an fan’s recreation of the song, then a leaked version...
A few weeks back, I asked my students what color play dough they wanted to make. After a few rounds of run-off voting, they decided unanimously for rainbow. Of course.
Asked about his ongoing verbal spat with Tiger Woods, Sergio Garcia said the following: “We’ll have him ’round every night. We will serve fried chicken.” After the inevitable backlash, he said this: “I answered...
Several months ago, Rod Dreher, responding to several commenters on his blog, wondered whether a decline of Christianity in the West will lead to an atheistic society or a pagan one. There are, to...
Spotted: @joshtpm @capehartj @ezraklein & other lefty columnists headed into the West Wing as a group. POTUS coffee? Carney meeting? Anyone? — Ari Shapiro (@arishapiro) May 21, 2013 The number one thing that...
Slim pickings today because I spent so much time research the new #XBone and snarking it up with everyone else on Twitter. David Bezmozgis describes how he writes, including using Freedom to block the Internet...
Maybe Georgia Republicans were right after all; maybe Obama really does a Marvel-comics-like mind control ray. How else does one explain the obliviously self-destructive actions of Rand Paul and the entire right-wing media machine...
My school has uniforms. Female students have options that allow them to wear dresses/skirts or not to. However, for certain occasions, formal dress is required. This demands that the girls wear either a dress...
It is hard having children out-of-step with your friends. Ten months ago, you were down to hit the town on a Thursday night. You HAD been to the new noodles place, thanks very much,...
By now probably everyone knows about the devastation that wracked Oklahoma City and its suburbs, especially the town of Moore. As regular readers of mine will know, my sister teaches at the University in...
Ted Heller feels like he’s betraying someone, or something, every time he picks up his new e-reader. Maybe though he should consider more deeply the nature of this perceived betrayal before taking to the...
From BlaiseP’s recent obituary of Kenneth Waltz: Da Vinci once said “Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with...
Give Jessica Valenti credit; she’s not afraid to be ahead of the curve. At least that’s one explanation for her piece at The Nation, “Why I’m Voting for Her.” We’re all to assume, as...
“Russia in fact no longer existed – Only the Soviet Union…” (Our kickoff post is here, and our discussion posts are here, here, here, here, here, and here.) Thanks to Living Colour, we’re all...
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on Open Mic for the week of 1/20/2025Hey, Jaybird, have you ever, like, Googled anything? Instead of just sorta repeating right-wing talk… on Open Mic for the week of 1/20/2025John Bolton just had his secret service protection revoked by Trump. You may be wondering why John B…
on Trump Term Two, Day One, Executive OrdersAs part of this purported anti-DEI push, he is rescinding civil rights era executive orders that no… on Open Mic for the week of 1/20/2025And screaming “fascism!” every fifteen seconds doesn’t work anymore. What frequency do you think peo…
on Trump Term Two, Day One, Executive OrdersTrump just rescinded Lyndon Johnson's EO 11246. That's the Affirmative Action one.
on Trump Term Two, Day One, Executive Orders1. Ending Birthright citizenship by EO isn't unconstitutional if five out of four Supreme Court Just… on Trump Term Two, Day One, Executive OrdersWoke is mainly ivory tower discussions that moved into online spaces with a slightly bigger number o… on Trump Term Two, Day One, Executive OrdersShe never was ahead according to her internal polling. Not even for an hour.
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